Personally I would never buy a plasma tv. Reason being that I had two different friends buy them (at the store without even trying you could tell which ones were LCD and Plasma, the Plasma ones were brighter and better all around looking.)

The problem? Screen burn, lot of easy to get screen burn. Play a game with a HUD for an hour? You can still see it like 2 hours later. Same with tv channels that put their logo on in the corner. They both had to put their tv on sleep mode at night before bed on burn protection mode (can't remember the name, it made the screen white with it have a fade to black bar going from right to left). If they didn't do this, screen burn all day the next day.

Both bought an LCD tv after that. Didn't matter it has the "grey haze" in the colour, it doesn't have screen burn.

As for OLED tv's, I hope not. From what I understand, OLED's can lose like half their brightness in 5 years. Due this this, OLED's are great for smartphones and tablets that have an expected lifespan of 2-4 years tops so you won't notice it, but if your going to have a device that will be around longer, like a TV, it's not as good.

(AMOLED and OLED's are mostly the same, the difference being AM-OLED means Advanced Matrix, aka, touch sensitive, with OLED not being touch sensitive).

On a different note, one of the other differences of LCD and OLED is pixel density and colour. LCD's don't have the richness of colour as an OLED, but a LCD can have much smaller pixels. The best example of this I can think of is the iPad 3 vs the Galaxy Tab. The iPad3 has a LCD screen which gives it the huge screen size that the Galaxy Tab just can't do (the Galaxy Tab uses a AMOLED screen). The catch? Pictures look brighter and better on the Galaxy Tab, but not as sharp since the screen size is smaller.For a decent example, you can look at this YouTube video, at the times of 1:39-1:43 when he zooms in to the screens. You can see the Galaxy Tab on the right has richer yellows and blues, look at the Sun icon, the one above it, look at the yellow "Feature" icons. The color difference is something you can notice here.

Kitkoan wrote on May 11, 2012, 22:50:Its not just CEO's of companies like HBO. Its the others like Comcast whom are trying to stifle internet innovation with low caps. Trying as hard as they can to kill of competition like Netflix and others, just to keep their cable tv connections alive against the sea of internet streaming that they can't profit from.

to be honest I still find it amazing that this is happening in the US, I have no cap here (netherlands) and I think I have to look hard to find an ISP that does. When I started with cable internet I seem to remember it was somewhere around 5mb/s for 35euro or something, over time that has changed and right now am on 30mb/s for 25euro, which is is enough for me, but if i want 100mb/s for 50euro is an option I can take.

what has changed here though is that the mobile companies have swaped from unlimited to limited internet.

Prez wrote on May 11, 2012, 22:42:Internet video would be the future if pants-on-head retards like the CEO of HBO weren't actively trying to stifle and kill it because it threatens their antiquated and obsolete business model.

Its not just CEO's of companies like HBO. Its the others like Comcast whom are trying to stifle internet innovation with low caps. Trying as hard as they can to kill of competition like Netflix and others, just to keep their cable tv connections alive against the sea of internet streaming that they can't profit from.

Oh, they are on my list of corporate vultures, believe me. They are at the top, actually.

Everyone has their own list. They aren't the top of mine, I have a different company that is the worst on my list

Prez wrote on May 11, 2012, 22:42:Internet video would be the future if pants-on-head retards like the CEO of HBO weren't actively trying to stifle and kill it because it threatens their antiquated and obsolete business model.

Its not just CEO's of companies like HBO. Its the others like Comcast whom are trying to stifle internet innovation with low caps. Trying as hard as they can to kill of competition like Netflix and others, just to keep their cable tv connections alive against the sea of internet streaming that they can't profit from.

As more people are slowly moving to 3G/4G/LTE and the rumors that some of the ISP's are slowly moving from DSL/cable connections to said wireless tech, smaller data caps and more cloud services of various things from games to documents, ect... Video streaming could die sooner more then later.

A side effect of people wanting more and more internet everywhere, lack of competition in wireless spectrum and people not understanding the long term results of todays actions. When your cap is 30 gigs at best a month, who wants to stream hundreds of MB to a gig or two a show? Better to just use the streaming cable box that costs $40-80 a month with no limit to watch the shows, same results as cable, just called something different.

xXBatmanXx wrote on May 10, 2012, 23:44:ah crap....I want to jump on this so bad considering the time I put in all 4 games of the original...but I have so much to do in the original games that I have a hard time getting the new one....and so much to play, and D3, TL2, etc etc etc....

Someone convince me to get it......

Oh? I still need to finish Factions and Eye of the North myself.

What do you have left to do?

Well, I had some people run me through some areas as my guy isn't a brute...but some of the missions in Factions I can't do. And I haven't even started Eye yet...waiting for a group to do it.

I've hero'ed my way through everything, being a elementalist.

If you want to join up with me on Guild Wars though, always will to try

xXBatmanXx wrote on May 10, 2012, 23:44:ah crap....I want to jump on this so bad considering the time I put in all 4 games of the original...but I have so much to do in the original games that I have a hard time getting the new one....and so much to play, and D3, TL2, etc etc etc....

space captain wrote on May 9, 2012, 20:41:i seriously doubt viruses for unix based OS will ever get as bad as windows had it

With market share rising and Apple having an average of 91 days to fix holes, I can see it getting worse, a lot worse.

Granted, I also see this combined with the move to opt-in for now of only allowing OSX market apps to install more the signs of Apple locking down OSX so its a console like iOS. Would be an easy sell too with the whole Flashback and worse coming.

"The power and usability you've come to expect from OSX, with the security of iOS." When technology is involved, too many people don't bother thinking out the long term side effects.